Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pentagon brass were outraged last year when the Dravo Corp. persuaded Congress to award it up to $10 million in extra payments on a disputed Navy contract. Although Dravo had agreed to build a steam plant at the Navy's Norfolk, Va., shipyard under a $102.9 million fixed-price contract, Congress ordered the service to pay for Dravo's cost overruns. Navy paymasters stalled until the 1987 fiscal year ended Sept. 30. Now, they discover, Dravo is back again. Just passed by the House Appropriations Committee, the 1988 Defense Department budget includes the same $10 million bailout. "Greed is still...
Dravo, which lost nearly $25 million on the project, is also suing seven subcontractors to recover these same cost overruns. The troubled firm says it will get out of the steam plant-building business altogether...
...course, always a pleasure to watch Martin's steam-gauge face register his rising internal pressures and to witness his exquisitely expressed blowoffs. But Candy offers even more insinuating delights. Covering lonely need with empty gab, insecurity with a not entirely trustworthy savvy, he is the most dangerous kind of pest, the type who worms rather than blusters his way into your life. The movie works the same way. For all its broadly farcical air, Planes, Trains and Automobiles finally seals its bond with the audience in the same way that Martin and Candy seal theirs, with...
...painstakingly restored democracy, she has not been able to usher in paradise. Instead, the threat of apocalypse hangs over the Philippines. As Aquino tries to rid the country of the corrupt legacy of Ferdinand Marcos, an increasing number of Filipinos fear that her government is running out of steam. "We expected decency in government. We expected efficiency," says Antonio Oposa, a lawyer in the central Philippine city of Cebu. "Maybe that's too much to expect of one woman." He adds, "We don't need a saint for a President." Says Excel Bueno: "We need a strong President -- and discipline...
When asked about the fact that a steam shovel was reportedly digging up the Yale Bowl turf, and a large steel object resembling a central heating unit was being lowered into the resulting hole and the field was being sodded by a single unknown figure wearing a Yale hockey jersey and blue sunglasses. Cozza said, "Wow, he's great. He must be a superman. Where is he? I need him for the defensive line...